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Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 13, folder 7·Undated

Bamboula, Sherds (Sh663–Sh728)

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Handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 95 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 13, folder 7 (Bamboula, Sherds (Sh663–Sh728)), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 13, folder 7, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 95 of 100

Sh 725 B 356 slip Burnished ware Wheelmade (?) Clay buff, not well cleaned, full of medium sized coarse particles. Paint thick flaky coating of pinkish brown burnished horizontally.

Photograph

1954-46 Preserves fragment from wall of jug, completely covered with paint. Owing to extensive abrasion of the inner surface it is impossible to be certain of the original nature of the fabric but it appears to be a variety of Plain Wheelmade II. Bamboula ware 5,2 by 5,3 cm.

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

Objects named on this pageBamboula (Episkopi)

By the field number written in the record. A number links to the object’s page where we have one, and to the Penn Museum’s record where the museum has it online.

Recorded

  • Sh 725Jug wall fragment

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